Video: Swan causes traffic delays on M60

An injured swan caused a traffic flap today after going walkabout on the M60 motorway. Cars swerved to avoid the bird as it wandered in along the clockwise carriageway between junction 19 and 20 at about 12.30pm.

An injured swan caused a traffic flap today after going walkabout on the M60 motorway.

Cars swerved to avoid the bird as it wandered in along the clockwise carriageway between junction 19 and 20, near Blackley, at about 12.30pm.

Traffic was brought to a standstill as motorists got out of their cars in an attempt to usher the swan to the hard shoulder on foot.

Eventually the stunned swan was guided off the road by by the driver of a white van.

Police and the RSCPA arrived at the scene at 12.45pm and capture the swan unharmed and took it away in the animal rescue charity's van.

It is believed the bird, which had black marks on it's right side, was struck by a vehicle flying over the motorway on its way to its habitat at the River Irk.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said: "We were called at 12.33pm after reports a 'dying' swan or goose was walking in the middle lane of the M60 clockwise between 19 and 20 causing cars to swerve to avoid it. By 12.52pm police and RSPCA were quickly at the scene and managed to get the swan into the back of the RSCPA van."